Effects of postnatal handling of rats on emotional, HPA-Axis, and prolactin reactivity to novelty and conflict

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1355-1359

  Núñez, Juan Francisco ^a   Ferré, Pilar ^a   Escorihuela, Rosa María ^a   Tobeña, Adolf ^a   Fernández Teruel, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Emotionality rating; HPA axis reactivity; Open field stress; Postnatal handling; Prolactin; Punished drinking; Sprague Dawley rats

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DRINKING; EMOTIONALITY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

EID: 0029910320     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00225-9     Document Type: Article

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